--- title: 'Malaya Today, Picture Set D, no. 10: Uniforms of the Federation army (Malay Jawi-script photo poster distributed in Malaya)' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/malaya-today-set-d-10-federation-regiment-uniforms-malay-1953/ description: 'A studio photograph of three soldiers standing in a row in three different uniforms: a khaki cap and shirt, white ceremonial dress.' section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Malaya Today, Picture Set D, no. 10: Uniforms of the Federation army [![Malaya Today, Picture Set D, no. 10: Uniforms of the Federation army, 1953 US poster: A studio photograph of three soldiers](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/malaya-today-set-d-10-federation-regiment-uniforms-malay-1953.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/malaya-today-set-d-10-federation-regiment-uniforms-malay-1953.jpg) # Malaya Today, Picture Set D, no. 10: Uniforms of the Federation army (Malay Jawi-script photo poster distributed in Malaya) A studio photograph of three soldiers standing in a row in three different uniforms: a khaki cap and shirt, white ceremonial dress, and a bush hat with webbing pouches and rifle. The Jawi-script Malay caption labels them as the Federation army's uniforms: left, one kind of dress; centre, ceremonial dress; right, war dress. The tell is card-stacking: a catalogue of smart uniforms presents the forces without their purposes or costs. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## Text on the object Original (Malay (Jawi script)) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` تانه ملايو هاري اين كمفولن كمبر "دي" ڤاسوقكن٢ برسنجات ڤرسكتوان يونيفورم عسكر ڤرسكتوان: (دكيري) ڤكاين وقت برجالن (دتڠه) ڤكاين استعادة (دكانن) ڤكاين ڤرڠ. [10] ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` Malaya Today Picture Set "D" Armed forces of the Federation Uniforms of the Federation army: (left) dress for when on the move [or walking-out dress]; (centre) ceremonial dress; (right) war dress. [10] ``` Jawi script, read from the image; header reads 'Malaya Today, Picture Set "D", Armed forces of the Federation'. The phrase read as 'dress for when walking' (pakaian waktu berjalan) is uncertain in sense; the sheet number appears in a circle at left of the caption. [← Malaya Today, Picture Set D, no. 10: Uniforms of the Federation Regiment (English photo poster distributed in Malaya)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/malaya-today-set-d-10-federation-regiment-uniforms-english-1953/) [Malaya Today, Picture Set D, no. 10: Federation Regiment uniforms (Tamil photo poster distributed in Malaya) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/malaya-today-set-d-10-federation-regiment-uniforms-tamil-1953/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.